August 2020 Issue

Page 6 August 2020 EAST COAST EQUESTRIAN New from Forage First® Equine Nutrition is Summer Care, a heat abatement supple- ment for working horses. Sum- mer, while a great time to enjoy your equine companion, presents unique challenges such as high ambient temperatures, flies, and other physiological challenges associated with heat. Summer Care is a unique supplement specifically formu- lated to help support your horse through the hot summer months. Summer Care’s low feeding rate (2 oz per head daily) and advanced nutrition delivers an economical means to help your ADM Develops Summer Care to Help Horses Cope with Heat horse beat the heat. Each scoop of Summer Care contains a con- centrated source of unique ADM ingredients designed to nurture wellness including Thermal Care™, Garlium, Cell Rate®, and CitriStim®. Thermal Care’s patent-pending technology uses encapsulated plant extracts to help alleviate some of the physiological and health challenges associated with heat stress. Garlium is a highly concentrated garlic-based flavoring. Its unique production pro- cess concentrates the flavoring com- ponent to 10 times the strength of garlic while enhancing stability and shelf life. Cell Rate provides nucle- otides, the building blocks of RNA and DNA that support natural cell growth and proliferation involved in maintenance, reproduction, growth, immunity, digestion, and well-be- ing of your horse, especially under stressful conditions, such as show or performance. CitriStim is a truly unique whole-cell inactivated yeast ( Pichia guilliermondii ) that helps strengthen your horse’s defense against health challenges by sup- porting and optimizing gut function, gut integrity, and body defense responses. For more information, visit ADMAnimal Nutrition – Horse Feeds on Facebook or at AD- Mequine.com. Or pose your nu- trition questions to their customer service representatives and Ph.D. nutritionists at AN.EquineHelp@ adm.com or at 800-680-8254. Finally, be on the lookout for Forage First GS. This unique supplement will be available this fall to help support the health and function of your horse’s stomach. Its triple-action technology is cur- rently being tested at veterinary clinics across the country in order to verify its efficacy. The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders’Association presented the annual Iroquois Awards for 2019 stakes winners and champi- ons June 26 via Zoom. Horse of the Year was Mirth, who also was named champion 2019 Iroquois Awards Presented Via Zoom older female and champion turf female. Bred by Barlar out of the French Deputy mare Di’s Delight, Mirth didn’t make her stakes debut until June of her 4-year-old season in her 13th start. Three months later the daughter of Colonel John became a grade 1 winner for Little Red Feather Racing and trainer Phil D’Amato with a victory in the Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1T) at Santa Anita Park. She wrapped up the year with a score in the Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T), and in be- tween set the pace in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) be- fore giving way late to finish sixth, beaten less than six lengths. She won or placed in seven of 11 starts for the year and earned $347,281. Mirth’s success catapulted Di’s Delight to a broodmare of the year award. Purchased by Barlar for $55,000 at the 2011 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, she has six Pennsylvania-bred foals of racing age, five winners, and three stakes performers. Two were stakes winners in 2019— Mirth and the Jump Start filly Vault, who won or placed in seven of eight starts last year. The champion older male ti- tle went to Prince Lucky, the rich- est Pennsylvania-bred runner of 2019. Bred and raced by Daniel McConnell Sr. out of the Great Notion mare Lucky Notion, the Corinthian gelding kicked off his 4-year-old season for trainer Todd Pletcher with dominating back- to-back scores in the Hal’s Hope Stakes (G3) and the Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes (G2). He added a win in the State Dinner Stakes at Belmont Park in July and was second in the Kelso Handicap (G2). His 2019 earnings stand at $375,880, with three wins and a second from eight starts. Al and Bill Ulwelling’s veter- an Pumpkin Rumble was honored as champion turf male. Bred by Smart Angle out of the Storm Cat mare Clarins, the English Channel gelding ran five times in his 8-year- old season for trainer Kevin Attard, four in graded stakes, and won twice, defending his title in the Valedictory Stakes (G3) at Wood- bine by more than five lengths. He won the Alphabet Soup Handicap at Parx Racing, and finished third in the Nijinsky (G2) and Dominion Day Stakes (G3) for 2019 earnings of $152,397. Reddam Racing’s Los Alami- tos Derby (G3) runner-up Parsimo- ny was named champion 3-year- Remember...tell our advertisers you found them in East Coast Equestrian! (Continued on page 7)